Having fun playing dive commander afrochoo at our spawn in SoR BL
Hey that’s one of my favorite pass times too! The best part is when he realizes running is futile and tries to pew pew you for a second or two before going down.
Hopefully Choo’s spawn camping is going a little better than HL’s in EBG. Our five man guild is routinely destroying them. Stick to the zerg, guys. It suits you better.
We sat at your spawn for literally 2 hours, building ballistas, AC’s and generally just embarrassing whatever you threw our way (that is until you brought 2x our numbers of course).
And the only time we had a bit of trouble on even numbers was when 4 or so D/D eles were sent at us (GC mesmer/thieves).
That would be my guild. And I wouldn’t call it “a bit of trouble”, but maybe it’s just a matter of perspective.
You showed up towards the last 10 minutes of our 2 hour trip to your spawn? That of course gives you perspective on the previous 1 hour 50 minutes where your servermates were running into our traps/5 man portal bombs (LOL) left and right.
Keep up the good work killing a couple of glass cannon mesmers bro, legendary players right here.
I can’t speak for your other 1:50, but all I know is that my guild party of 5 wiped you guys multiple times, and 2 of us died once. There were many more than 5 of you.
At the end we had 5-6? We were all essentially either
A) Zerging into your spawn to see who could make it the furthest (one of your LOVE asuras has a picture lol)
B) Fighting through SMC fight lag
Also the fight was at your spawn l0l0lolol0l0lol so you being the only ones fighting us… sure.
Congratz.
Guys guys! Settle this like PvPers! At high noon behind the windmill. Winner gets bragging rights.
Having fun playing dive commander afrochoo at our spawn in SoR BL
Hey that’s one of my favorite pass times too! The best part is when he realizes running is futile and tries to pew pew you for a second or two before going down.
Hopefully Choo’s spawn camping is going a little better than HL’s in EBG. Our five man guild is routinely destroying them. Stick to the zerg, guys. It suits you better.
We sat at your spawn for literally 2 hours, building ballistas, AC’s and generally just embarrassing whatever you threw our way (that is until you brought 2x our numbers of course).
And the only time we had a bit of trouble on even numbers was when 4 or so D/D eles were sent at us (GC mesmer/thieves).
That would be my guild. And I wouldn’t call it “a bit of trouble”, but maybe it’s just a matter of perspective.
You showed up towards the last 10 minutes of our 2 hour trip to your spawn? That of course gives you perspective on the previous 1 hour 50 minutes where your servermates were running into our traps/5 man portal bombs (LOL) left and right.
Keep up the good work killing a couple of glass cannon mesmers bro, legendary players right here.
I can’t speak for your other 1:50, but all I know is that my guild party of 5 wiped you guys multiple times, and 2 of us died once. There were many more than 5 of you.
At the end we had 5-6? We were all essentially either
A) Zerging into your spawn to see who could make it the furthest (one of your LOVE asuras has a picture lol)
B) Fighting through SMC fight lag
Congratz.
Can’t tell if serious. My sigil had a full stack before you guys were done.
Okay rematch in a secluded area with no SMC lag and not right in front of your spawn with like the 35 BG (who were being cleared by JQ in SMC) swarming around as well.
Having fun playing dive commander afrochoo at our spawn in SoR BL
Hey that’s one of my favorite pass times too! The best part is when he realizes running is futile and tries to pew pew you for a second or two before going down.
Hopefully Choo’s spawn camping is going a little better than HL’s in EBG. Our five man guild is routinely destroying them. Stick to the zerg, guys. It suits you better.
We sat at your spawn for literally 2 hours, building ballistas, AC’s and generally just embarrassing whatever you threw our way (that is until you brought 2x our numbers of course).
And the only time we had a bit of trouble on even numbers was when 4 or so D/D eles were sent at us (GC mesmer/thieves).
That would be my guild. And I wouldn’t call it “a bit of trouble”, but maybe it’s just a matter of perspective.
You showed up towards the last 10 minutes of our 2 hour trip to your spawn? That of course gives you perspective on the previous 1 hour 50 minutes where your servermates were running into our traps/5 man portal bombs (LOL) left and right.
Keep up the good work killing a couple of glass cannon mesmers bro, legendary players right here.
I can’t speak for your other 1:50, but all I know is that my guild party of 5 wiped you guys multiple times, and 2 of us died once. There were many more than 5 of you.
At the end we had 5-6? We were all essentially either
A) Zerging into your spawn to see who could make it the furthest (one of your LOVE asuras has a picture lol)
B) Fighting through SMC fight lag
Also the fight was at your spawn l0l0lolol0l0lol so you being the only ones fighting us… sure.
Having fun playing dive commander afrochoo at our spawn in SoR BL
Hey that’s one of my favorite pass times too! The best part is when he realizes running is futile and tries to pew pew you for a second or two before going down.
Hopefully Choo’s spawn camping is going a little better than HL’s in EBG. Our five man guild is routinely destroying them. Stick to the zerg, guys. It suits you better.
We sat at your spawn for literally 2 hours, building ballistas, AC’s and generally just embarrassing whatever you threw our way (that is until you brought 2x our numbers of course).
And the only time we had a bit of trouble on even numbers was when 4 or so D/D eles were sent at us (GC mesmer/thieves).
That would be my guild. And I wouldn’t call it “a bit of trouble”, but maybe it’s just a matter of perspective.
You showed up towards the last 10 minutes of our 2 hour trip to your spawn? That of course gives you perspective on the previous 1 hour 50 minutes where your servermates were running into our traps/5 man portal bombs (LOL) left and right.
Keep up the good work killing a couple of glass cannon mesmers bro, legendary players right here.
Having fun playing dive commander afrochoo at our spawn in SoR BL
Hey that’s one of my favorite pass times too! The best part is when he realizes running is futile and tries to pew pew you for a second or two before going down.
Hopefully Choo’s spawn camping is going a little better than HL’s in EBG. Our five man guild is routinely destroying them. Stick to the zerg, guys. It suits you better.
We sat at your spawn for literally 2 hours, building ballistas, AC’s and generally just embarrassing whatever you threw our way (that is until you brought 2x our numbers of course).
And the only time we had a bit of trouble on even numbers was when 4 or so D/D eles were sent at us (GC mesmer/thieves).
I wouldnt mind getting a randomly shuffled matchup. Tiers get stale when theres no movement. Would totally find it cool to fight different guilds/servers for a bit.
Transfers: Dont suspend them, no point to punish the PvE populations.
We can basically take on loosely organized groups 2-3x our size as we both have great stealthy builds with some survivability. Stacking confusion + thieves ganging a couple of targets works wonders.
Unsure why these RK fellows continue to complain about us attacking them over JQ. Any time we target JQ we just get pushed by BG and are forced to defend their attacks and subsequently put them on the defensive. Maybe if you weren’t such opportunists you wouldn’t be dealing with your keep in EB being trebbed from bravost and langor every night, and your home bl hills, bay, and garrison being slapped…
I am going after a legendary just as many of you people are doing as well. I have tried running cof p1 on my Mesmer is those silly “4 ZERK WARRIOR 1 MESMER PING GEAR $$$” groups, and I don’t make anywhere near the profit other people claim to get.
I make around 1-1.25 gold before the diminishing returns make the dungeon worthless. I get the 2x 26 silver rewards, and then the 10s etc rewards. The drops I get can be 0-3 rares with around 60% mf on my normal gear and food running through the dungeon.
So where are people getting this 5-10g on their daily cof grind?
We’re so stacked, that we have 4 hour queues on every BL, 22.35 hours out of the day. The 1.65 hours where we are not queued is the time period between our mega stacked Oceanic/SEA coverage dozing off at their keyboards from playing for 17.55 hours in a row nightly, and our NA arriving home at exactly 5 PM EST as work lets out, as we all know less overtime at work means more overtime in the WvWvW maps!
Looks like FA is coming on strong, well done to them. T2 looks like a lot of fun, hopefully Kaineng is just feeling some burnout and will be rejuvinated and push TC/FA to their limits once again
The fiery boulders after the acolyte slaying in CoF p1. I believe they think its only possible with a mesmer w/blink & portal, but its actually quite easy no matter the class.
The last 2 pages of this thread have read like a Fox News editorial.
2 GUILDS LEAVE BLACKGATE, DEFECT TO NORTH KOREA
Agg and FoE, have abandoned Blackgate for the warm embrace of their Dear Leader. Several Drone Strikes are planned in retaliation.
BLACKGATE ASSURES ITS CITIZENS: WE ARE FINE, EVERY THINGS FINE
45 PPT on the Weekend? Is this the end for Blackgate? No say local man, “Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend that Blackgate is only playing possum, big things coming down the pipes. Just as soon as we donate more tot he war fund.”
BREAKING NEWS: SANCTUM OF RALL HIRES 4 BILLION MERCENARIES, MONEY REPORTEDLY FROM JADE QUARRY FEDERAL RESERVE.
4 Billion new transfers hit Sanctum of Rall this week, with an already overly stacked server this puts SoR with the most people on a server in any game ever created. Reportedly all new transfers are to receive 7k Gold and 2k Gems for their service. All the money is said to have come straight from SoR’s close ally, Jade Quarry. Details are slowly coming out that the only repayment option JQ gave to SoR, was continuing to come in 2nd. While allowing JQ to remain in 1st while at the same time continuing the constant and never ending(proven with several screen shots) 2v1 against BG.
BLACKGATE TO JADE QUARRY: YOU’RE FAT.
Yeah…they went there.
I have always viewed the flat out troll posts as a contribution to that servers political smear campaign. Lets face it WvW is just as much about politics as it is war. Can you even have war without politics?
War, as of late, is derived from politics and agendas.
Every country has an agenda, just as every server does.
When you pit people against one another in a long drawn out battle, it almost always spills out into mind games and psychological warfare. The ‘on-the-field’ battle is never enough, and other ways of beating your enemy will surely be introduced. There will be smear campaigns, rumors started, flame ram trolling, and heck even our WvW/Community TeamSpeak over at SoR has been DDoS’d lately (shame).
Kind of sucks seeing Dusk on the TP for 600 gold. Hell, I only have ~150 gold, and I have been working towards twilight for quite some time. I guess using my 350 ectos I saved for my 77 clovers (over 100 gold) and buying my commander tag didnt help, but the precursors seem so kitten unattainable.
Gotta say that I appreciate the hard work that our Oceanics and SEA put in. We may not have a large unstoppable single guild like FoO or even MERC+ND, but what we have are a collection of small oceanic and sea guilds that come together and operate beautifully to take us through the night over 200 PPT when we used to tick at far below 100.
Keep up the good work brothers, we all love what you guys do.
While we have a ton of higher level players, we do have new players starting out as well. We never shy away from running dungeons or playing with newer players.
I was that Asura Choo Ele that ran with you guys in havok a few days back, and, quite frankly, I thought you guys were awesome (at least the ones I got to run with).
If Choo didn’t require full time WvW commitment, I’d definitely hit you guys up, since as fun as organized WvW is, Choo is somewhat lacking in the “zany” aspect.
Whenever I’m not busy spamming marks on my main with Choo, I’ll definitely be on the lookout to run whatever with you guys again.
Good luck with recruitment!
Darn I wasnt there but I am glad you had fun with us. Feel free to add me if you want to come out with us again
I find this to be extremely silly. Why is there no ability to see a “Last Logged On” date for guild leaders? I’ve had my guild for around 3 months, and over that time we have grown to reach the 500 member cap. Now I know that many people have quit the game and I try to weed out inactives, but my methods are time consuming and not foolproof. I am forced to change people to a certain rank, and monitor members at that rank to see if they ever log on. If they log on, I move them back to a normal member rank. If they don’t move back to the normal member rank after a week or two, I kick them. There should be no reason that I should have to try and manage a 500 member guild like this
Having loads of fun in WvW lately. Camped BG spawn with 10 of our best mesmers/thieves the other night and had them building ballistas to try and even counter us xD
Was fun causing BG to bring their zerg to spawn to kill 5 of us camping them in EB. Was also cute seeing you guys build ballistas to ward off our havoc group at your spawn as well xD
Dont know if this was necessary of a full fledged post. We all know about the trolls out there. We know GSCH and the other guilds are loyal to SoR. We are proud and trusting of our community.
^ What happens when groups play for PPT and not rewards? In Tier 1, rewards are an afterthought to PPT and maintaining, upgrading, and sieging our own towers. It must be radically different on smaller servers then, because in T1 it’s all about maintaining and building on the PPT.
Question is can we (SoR) in the future make up enough PPT during NA and SEA/OCX to overcome JQ’s EU superiority?
I must say that our EU has done better this week though. Look forward to some BL action tonight, can we get 2nd again?
Well with the pending transfer of AFS from SoS, hopefully we can push even harder during SEA/Oceanic. This, combined with our dedication during EU hours lately should be enough to place 2nd next week, and make a coordinated push for first after that. I look forward to it greatly.
Agreed. It’s a complicated problem to solve as it touches a lot of broad systems, so I can’t guarantee it will happen soon, but I would very much like for us to alleviate this some way or another.
Loot bags and chests gained from kills could be alleviated by placing a large chest that is spawned at your servers spawn on the map that you can collect your loot from whenever you please. The chest can open up like a bank-esque system where you can withdraw what you want a discard the rest. The chest does not disappear at log off, but rather is saved in case you need to quickly bail out of WvW. Badges would be treated as currency and instead of taking up a slot in the loot chest, they instead are represented just as gold is in a players personal bank.
Facts that counter:
1. AOE cap
2. Zergs reward more wxp because it doesnt divide wxp
3. Doylaks give more points for the more people contributing to the kill.
1. Not a huge issue, ask the brigade of confusion bomb mesmers I usually have in my small group of ~15. Its not terribly hard defeating larger groups when they’re killing their selves while trying to kill you.
2. Not once do we say “Hey lets go take X tower and X supply camp, im almost Rank 10!”
3. Not once do we say “Hey we need more people over here at X supply camp to take out these Dolyaks, I really want more WXP!”
I think these are all petty points and definitely ones I havent encountered, which is saying something because if I devoted as much time to getting my legendary as I do to WvW, I’d have freaking Eternity by now.
You’re not getting the point of the posts…
it’s MORE advantageous. No one said you HAD to.
No one ever “Says” that they are doing what they are doing for wxp, it just happens that way as part of the normal play of the game. But zerging is the path of least resistance.
If everyone in the room says the carpet is red, and you think it’s green… an eye exam may be in order.
“Zerging is the path of least resistance”
Yes, because human nature dictates so, as I previously stated. It’s not the GW2 rewards system. It all goes back to human nature and our instinct to group up to overcome resistance. It really doesnt have much to do with the GW2 WvW system, you essentially are stating it yourself whether you realize it or not.
I’d much rather bring my guild and our 15-20 down into watergate, speedbuild a couple of golems, and ninja an objective than run with 50 chickens with their heads cut off. I think most people would agree. The only ones usually looking for fast badges and karma are PUGs.
Proud of my SoR SEA/Oceanic comrades holding the fort (no pun intended) overnight. Looks like the days of a +70 overnight tick are gone. Keep up the good work Rallians! Maintain the push for the top
Currently looking for mainly (all other classes very much so welcomed):
- Smart Ele’s who can manage their CC’s/AOE’s as well as carrying utility weapons to use their dragon fang’s no siege as well as focus’ to protect siege when needed
- Necromancers who can manage their wells in chokepoint situations
- Guardians
Facts that counter:
1. AOE cap
2. Zergs reward more wxp because it doesnt divide wxp
3. Doylaks give more points for the more people contributing to the kill.
1. Not a huge issue, ask the brigade of confusion bomb mesmers I usually have in my small group of ~15. Its not terribly hard defeating larger groups when they’re killing their selves while trying to kill you.
2. Not once do we say “Hey lets go take X tower and X supply camp, im almost Rank 10!”
3. Not once do we say “Hey we need more people over here at X supply camp to take out these Dolyaks, I really want more WXP!”
I think these are all petty points and definitely ones I havent encountered, which is saying something because if I devoted as much time to getting my legendary as I do to WvW, I’d have freaking Eternity by now.
If the WvW maps were bigger, you wouldn’t see such big zergs. People like to survive yes, but they also like to win. If the map were bigger and you were not able to defend/attack everything with a single zerg, people would spread out.
Also, the AoE limit of 5 people just encourage people to stack and make a giant blob. Because like you said, people like to stay alive. And what’s better then an AoE cap that prevent damage when having good number?
And now the new flavor : WXP. Why do something alone to gain WXP, when you can get the same WXP a lot faster by joining a giant blop of people doing a WXP train.
Finaly, the downed state is just the nail in the coffin. 10 players defending a tower again 30 players. Even with full siege and upgraded tower, the 10 players usually find themself in an unending loop : They downed people, they even kill them, but each time the giant blob instant rez them. People feel like they can’t really die because downed state/rez make sure they can be back up in the fight right away.
Sure players created the zerg, but there is only Anet that can do something about it. They added mecanism in game that favorised the zerg, so player just follow the way.
This is where I have to disagree. At least in Tier 1 where my server currently resides, with me playing mainly at our off peak hours from midnight to around 4 AM, I constantly find myself getting ~10 of us to rally up in Ogrewatch for example, manning some AC’s and ballistas and usually being able to defend our tower from zergs of ~35-40 people. It really is not that difficult.
Try playing in a server that constantly finds itself with the outmanned buff and you will find yourself devising tactics to counter the larger zergs while having lesser players on your side.
Also, to the players talking about Karma trains in WvW, I can attest to the fact that we play for the pride of capturing X objective against X odds. We dont take stonemist for the karma, we take it for the PPT as well as pride. WXP and the karma/silver/exp rewards are a nice addition to the lootbags received from taking out an enemy force and capturing the main objective on a map.
It may be different on the lower tier servers, but I dont experience the issues you mention here on the top tier servers.
